Teaching Leadership

Dilanthi makes an active contribution to teaching programmes and she has sustained performance at national or international level demonstrating a significant contribution to teaching, learning and assessment related activity through distinction in leadership of a major teaching team; leading teaching collaboration with other institutions; publications on teaching and learning; teaching grants and contracts secured; external examinerships; regular teaching visits to other university departments; invited presentations at national/international teaching and learning conferences, lectures, seminars and membership of professional groups; awards; membership of national or international committees relating to teaching and learning; acting as adviser/consultant and keynote addresses at teaching-related conferences. These activities demonstrate her leadership in teaching programmes including teaching and curriculum design.

  1. Leadership in developing and delivering the courses together with international collaborators. These were at CPD, MSc and PhD levels. 2012 – to date.
  2. Leadership in developing the MSc in Disaster, Emergency Planning and Resilience, with the Bahrain Royal Police Academy. The University of Huddersfield, UK. 2023 – to date
  3. Joint leadership in developing and delivering the MSc programme in Disaster Mitigation and Reconstruction. The programme team were commended by the Faculty Programme Approval and Review Sub-committee on the quality of the documentation provided and for demonstrating how a programme can be approved quickly if the programme team produce the documentation professionally. 2007 – 2011.
  4. Leadership in teaching and learning development – BSc in Quantity Surveying and Construction Management in full in-country delivery. School of the Built Environment, University of Salford.  I successfully led a partnership with Colombo School of Construction Technology (CSCT) in Sri Lanka to deliver BSC Hons.  in Quantity Surveying degree programme, fully in Sri Lanka (full franchise mode). 2011.
  5. Strategic leadership in programme development – MSc in Quantity Surveying (Flying Faculty mode) and MSc Construction Management. School of the Built Environment, University of Salford. In September 2013, we launched a Flying faculty mode MSc Quantity Surveying programme in Sri Lanka (RICS Accredited) in partnership with Colombo School of Construction Technology (CSCT) to deliver entirely in-country, our prestigious MSc in QS programme. First of its kind ever to be developed outside the UK. 2013.
  6. Led the Internationalising the University curriculum initiative – School of the Built Environment, University of Salford, 2013 – 2014. Internationalising the curriculum included all aspects of the learning process and promoted activities that will help students develop international understanding and intercultural skills to respond to the intellectual, social and personal challenges they will face as graduates. I have been instrumental in encouraging colleagues to incorporate these principles within my school in making sure that: Curriculum is inclusive; Culturally responsive; Curriculum helps students to understand the global context of their studies; It creates effectively in international professional environments; Irrespective of whatever their discipline or level of study, students should gain an international perspective on their subject, its application and themselves as global citizens; and  It ensures academic involvement in internationalisation of curriculum and teaching and internationalisation of research and research links.
  7. Programme Director, BSc (QS) Hons. Degree Programme, University of Salford, 2002-2005. To improve all aspects of design, plan and implementation of the QS Degree course, including challenging current thinking, building competence and capabilities, developing integrated solutions to real-world problems, and looking for innovative ideas. As part of this role, I also led the following initiatives:  Quantity Surveying Periodic Programme Review, Research into Quantity Surveying research directions, Quantity Surveying Annual Programme Reviews, Capability capture, and Establishment of Quantity Surveying Special Interest Group.
  1. Teaching Counterpart for Commonwealth Fund for Technical Corporation (CFTC) Expert in the Department of Building Economics, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, as a requirement imposed by the Commonwealth Secretariat in the UK. 1995-1997
  2. Industrial Training Co-ordinator of the Department of Building Economics, for overall coordination of the Industrial Training Program for undergraduates of the Department. 1996 – 1997
  3. Undergraduate Co-ordinator. The work included organising staff development programmes, staff appraisals, planning and implementing student counselling programmes, scheduling course work viva, time tabling, coordination of visiting and internal lectures (1995 – 1996).

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